hinduism and Buddhism
Response Paper #1 Hinduism and Buddhism were two very popular religions in Asia from about 1500 BCE to present day. ... In both Hinduism and Buddhism reincarnation was considered a bad fortune and reaching Nirvana is a great and wonderful thing. ... Nirvana to both Hinduism and Buddhism was the goal of all their believers. ... This is evident in how one can escape reincarnation in Hinduism and in Buddhism. In Hinduism it was much harder to escape Samsara (the Hindu word for reincarnation); one would have to follow the dharma, the cosmic law that molds order through chaos (lecture three). ... In Buddhism one didn’t have to live there life in the way of their caste because Buddhist didn’t believe in the caste system.